High blood glucose concentration is a risk factor for mortality in middle-aged nondiabetic men: 20-year follow-up in the Whitehall Study, the Paris Prospective Study, and the Helsinki Policemen Study

Diabetes Care

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 360-367

  Balkau, Beverley ^a   Shipley, Martin ^c   Jarrett, R John ^d   Pyörälä, Kalevi ^b   Pyörälä, Marja ^b   Forhan, Anne ^a   Eschwège, Eveline ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POLICE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031912676     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.21.3.360     Document Type: Article

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